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Some famous final words from some famous dying people:

	"Thomas Jefferson...still survives..." - John Adams, US President, d. July 4, 1826
	"This is the last of earth! I am content." - John Quincy Adams, US President, d. February 21, 1848
	"Why not? It belongs to him." - Charlie Chaplin, actor - in reply to the priest at his deathbed who said, "May the Lord have mercy on your soul."
	"Please don't leave me. Please don't leave me." - Chris Farley, actor/comedian
	"Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well...let 'em wait." - Ethan Allen, American Revolutionary general, d. 1789
	"Am I dying or is this my birthday?" - Lady Nancy Astor, d. 1964
	"Nothing, but death." - Jane Austen, writer, d. July 18, 1817
	Codeine . . . bourbon. - Tallulah Bankhead, actress, d. December 12, 1968
	How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden? - P. T. Barnum, entrepreneur, d. 1891
	I can't sleep. - James M. Barrie, author, d. 1937
	Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy. - Ethel Barrymore, actress, d. June 18, 1959
	Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. - John Barrymore, actor, d. May 29, 1942
	I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. - Thomas à Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, d.1170
	"Now comes the mystery." - Henry Ward Beecher, evangelist, d. March 8, 1887
	Friends applaud, the comedy is finished. - Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, d. March 26, 1827
	I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis. - Humphrey Bogart, actor, d. January 14, 1957
	Josephine... - Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor, May 5, 1821
	"I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is correct." - Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, d. 1702
	Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you. - Johannes Brahms, composer, d. April 3, 1897
	Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy. - Charlotte Bronte, writer, d. March 31, 1855
	Beautiful.- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, writer, d. June 28, 1861
	Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight. - Lord George Byron, writer, d. 1824
	Et tu, Brute? - Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman Emperor, d. 44 BC
	I am still alive! - Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor, d.41 AD
	Don't let poor Nelly (his mistress, Nell Gwynne) starve. - Charles II, King of England and Scotland, d. 1685
	Ay Jesus. - Charles V, King of France, d. 1380
	I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time. - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, writer, d. July 1, 1904
	"The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive." - Frederic Chopin, composer, d. October 16, 1849
	I'm bored with it all. - Winston Churchill, statesman, d. January 24, 1965
	This time it will be a long one. - Georges Clemenceau, French premier, d. 1929
	I have tried so hard to do the right. - Grover Cleveland, US President, d. 1908
	That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted. - Lou Costello, comedian, d. March 3, 1959
	Goodnight my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow. - Noel Coward, writer, d. 1973
	Damn it... Don't you dare ask God to help me. - Joan Crawford, actress, d. May 10, 1977
	That was a great game of golf, fellers. - Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby, singer / actor, d. October 14, 1977
	I am not the least afraid to die. - Charles Darwin, d. April 19, 1882
	My God. What's happened? - Diana (Spencer), Princess of Wales, d. August 31, 1997
	I must go in, the fog is rising. - Emily Dickinson, poet, d. 1886
	Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain? - Jessica Dubroff, seven-year-old pilot, d. 1996
	Adieu, mes amis. Je vais la gloire. - Isadora Duncan, dancer, d. 1927
	Please know that I am quite aware of the hazards. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others. - Amelia Earhart, d. 1937
	It is very beautiful over there. - Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, d. October 18, 1931
	No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end. - Edward VII, King of Britain, d. 1910
	All my possessions for a moment of time. - Elizabeth I, Queen of England, d. 1603
	I've never felt better. - Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., actor, d. December 12, 1939
	I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring. - Richard Feynman, physicist, d. 1988
	I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it. - Errol Flynn, actor, d. October 14, 1959
	A dying man can do nothing easy. - Benjamin Franklin, statesman, d. April 17, 1790
	Come my little one, and give me your hand. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, d. March 22, 1832
	I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man. - Ernesto "Che" Guevara, d. October 9, 1967
	Yes, it's tough, but not as tough as doing comedy. - Edmund Gwenn, actor, d. September 6, 1959
	God will pardon me, that's his line of work. - Heinrich Heine, poet, d. February 15, 1856
	Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in the dark. - O. Henry (William Sidney Porter), writer, d. June 4, 1910
	All is lost. Monks, monks, monks! - Henry VIII, King of England, d. 1547
	I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. - Thomas Hobbes, writer, d. 1679
	I see black light. - Victor Hugo, writer, d. May 22, 1885
	Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven. - Andrew Jackson, US President, d. 1845
	Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees. - General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, d. 1863
	Is it the Fourth? - Thomas Jefferson, US President, d. July 4, 1826
	Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. - Jesus Christ
	"Does nobody understand?" - James Joyce, writer, d. 1941
	Why not? Yeah. - Timothy Leary, d. May 31, 1996
	Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death. - Franz Leher, composer, d. October 24, 1948
	A King should die standing. - Louis XVIII, King of France, d. 1824
	Why do you weep. Did you think I was immortal? - Louis XIV, King of France, d. 1715
	I am a Queen, but I have not the power to move my arms. - Louise, Queen of Prussia, d. 1820
	Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers. - Walter De La Mare, writer, d. 1956
	Let's cool it brothers . . . - Malcolm X, Black leader, d. 1966
	Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. - Karl Marx, revolutionary, d. 1883
	I forgive everybody. I pray that everybody may also forgive me, and my blood which is about to be shed will bring peace to Mexico. Long live Mexico! Long Live Independence! - Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, (Archduke Maximilian of Austria), d. June 11, 1867
	Nothing matters. Nothing matters. - Louis B. Mayer, film producer, d. October 29, 1957
	It's all been very interesting. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, writer, d. 1762
	I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room. - Eugene O'Neill, writer, d. November 27, 1953
	Good-bye . . . why am I hemorrhaging? - Boris Pasternak, writer, d. 1959
	Get my swan costume ready. - Anna Pavlova, ballerina, d. 1931
	I am curious to see what happens in the next world to one who dies unshriven. - Pietro Perugino, Italian painter, d. 1523
	Lord help my poor soul. - Edgar Allan Poe, writer, d. October 7, 1849
	I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you. - James K. Polk, US President, d. 1849
	Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms. - Alexander Pope, writer, d. May 30, 1744
	I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor. - François Rabelais, writer, d. 1553
	I have a terrific headache. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US President, d. 1945
	Put out the light. - Theodore Roosevelt, US President, d. 1919
	They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist... - General John Sedgwick, Union Commander, d. 1864
	Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die. - George Bernard Shaw, playwright, d. November 2, 1950
	I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record . . . - Dylan Thomas, poet, d. 1953
	Moose... Indian... - Henry David Thoreau, writer, d. May 6, 1862
	God bless... God damn. - James Thurber, humorist, d. 1961
	I feel here that this time they have succeeded. - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, d. 1940
	Don't worry chief, it will be alright. - Rudolph Valentino, actor, d. August 23, 1926
	Woe is me. Me thinks I'm turning into a god. - Vespasian, Roman Emperor, d. 79 AD
	Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary, d. 1923
	I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have. - Leonardo da Vinci, artist, d. 1519
	"I die hard but am not afraid to go." - George Washington, US President, d. December 14, 1799
	Go away. I'm all right. - H. G. Wells, novelist, d. 1946
	Either that wallpaper goes, or I do. - Oscar Wilde, writer, d. November 30, 1900
	I am ready. - Woodrow Wilson, US President, d. 1924
	Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good! - Florenz Ziegfeld, showman, d. July 22, 1932
	"Love one another." - George Harrison, musician / Beatle
	"Leave me alone, I'm fine." - Barry White, musician

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Comments: I think my favorite quote that was listed was the one by Oscar Wilde "Either that wallpaper goes, or I do." What a great last words. Comment by: cntrygrl81